Fluxbox

[Jonathan Atkinson]

Setting up a session is a bit of a pain in the ass (or so I though); 
here's how I did it.

Get yourself a root prompt. First we need to copy a create a gdm session 
file. Here we'll create a copy of the default session file and call it 
Fluxbox.

cd /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/
cp Default Fluxbox

Now you'll want to edit the Fluxbox file so it says something like the 
following:

#!/bin/bash                                                                              
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession fluxbox

This tells gdm to pass control to the Xsession binary with the argument 
fluxbox. Problem is, right now Xsession doesn't know anythign about 
fluxbox :-) So we change to where the Xsession profiles are stored, and 
edit the Xsession script:

cd /etc/X11/xdm/
vim Xsession

Okay,  now we need to find a specific section of the file to insert the 
fluxbox functionality. Fine the part of the file (it's some way down) 
which is a comment "now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific 
environment". Okay, now this is where you need to add another case :-) 
After the line "case $1 in", which is a few lines further down, add 
something like the following:

fluxbox)
exec -l $SHELL -c "/opt/fluxbox/bin/fluxbox"
;;

Note you'll need to change the path to your fluxbox executable as 
appropriate.

This is just how I did it, it's probably the wrong way to do it, but it 
works :-)

--Jon

S.M.Kelly wrote:

>Thanks to those of you who recommended Fluxbox.  I love it!  Why hasn't
>anyone else introduced tabs yet?! I only have two questions related to
>it.  The first one has gone previously unanswered.
>
>1. How do I give it a listing in the "sessions" list on the login
>screen.  Right now, I'm just going in under "failsafe" and running
>fluxbox.  I'm sure it's a file somewhere to be edited, just haven't
>found it yet.
>
>2. Can I save my fluxbox sessions?  I figured out how to edit menus,
>etc, but I'd like to save my desktops, running apps, etc.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Sean M. Kelly
>=========================
>SMKSensei@Mac.com
>"A Windows professional who uses a Mac running Linux."
>Harrisburg, PA
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